Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for July 09, 2023

That explains a lot.

Grr. I hate QR codes. I used to punch in a number on a keypad at the gym. During Covid they switched to a reader that reads a QR code off your phone. Now I have to bring my phone into the gym. It gets in the way of mat exercises and is in a position to be broken, stolen, or left.

Moses supposes codes are the mostest.

Just don’t drop your phone.

If I don’t scan the QR code, do I have to obey?

“Isn’t there somewhere we can just click it with a chisel and get on with our lives?”

A few years ago, at the engineering company where I worked, the boss was asking for suggestions for out website.

Someone suggested, “We could put a QR code to the site.”

The boss looked around at all the engineers. “Show of hands. Who has scanned a QR code in the last year?”

Nobody.

You still need a tablet.

QR commandment, “Thou shalt not have a false god to pray to and pay to”…

I see a problem for QR technology: the Commandments in Exod. xx are substantially different from the ones in xxxiv.

now he’s just phoning it in…

Or, if you’re in Portland, just do whatever you want.

Random musings:

God should rethink this. Some of those folks are not going to be as impressed with a QR code. And I’m sure some wag in the crowd wil speak up and say, “Why should I have to obey these? It’s not like they’re carved in stone!”

I’ve never scanned QR codes much, mostly because I use my computer far more than my phone to access the internet. But during the pandemic, when some of our local restaurants were reopening, they put the codes on the tables, so they didn’t have to hand out menus. You’d scan the code to bring up the menu on your phone.

So in this cartoon universe, cell phones and related technology existed in Biblical times? Makes me wonder if God withheld the invention of the GPS, or if that “40 years of wandering in the desert” business didn’t occur in this alternate reality.